Stop Tent City

Please understand our goal is not to oppose helping the homeless, it is opposing helping them in the well intentioned yet misguided way the St. Petersburg Diocese is proposing. While they have a noble goal of helping as many as possible as soon as possible, this is exactly where the problems are created. When they take people in and then figure out if they have a desire to be independent, we have a large amount of homeless who are accepting of their lifestyle and do not want to change now in ...

We are diligently working on many projects. We need more volunteers to get out and gather petition signatures. It does not matter where you live, if you are 200 feet or 30 miles away from this proposed homeless tent site, you can get out in your area and help. This will affect everyone in Hillsborough County and potentially beyond when they try to put this in your neighborhood too. We will supply you with a clipboard, petitions, fliers, educational material and other supplies.

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My visit to Pinellas Tent City:

Dec 20^th, 2008 at 11am

            My overall reaction to the operation is that it was even worse than I ever imagined. It is not families who fell on hard times and lost their homes. This is a gathering place for homeless people who are content being homeless. This operation does not help those in the immediate community, it brings the problems of other areas to Clearwater. This place is full of alcoholics and addicts. The conditions they are living in th...